| 单词 | speciousness |
| 例句 | Like one of those smart middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of is disguised by its topicality. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z It was the original 1932 Scarface that laid out the speciousness of the genre. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z It declined to dig into the research and warn other courts across the country about the speciousness of the warrior gene theory. Perspective | Criminal defendants still cite a ‘gene for violence.’ It doesn’t exist. 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z But like their elected leaders, they are fluent in speciousness. Don't be fooled: Trump's conspiracy theories won't discourage Georgia Republicans 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z For it would be to small purpose to give another sense, with some speciousness, to one or two points, if the great mass of matter and argument remain untouched. St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture 2011-11-28T03:00:25.013Z He was discoursing with all the delectable speciousness of a regular strike organizer. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Experience and habit added daily to his speciousness, till at length the world perhaps might have been searched in vain for his competitor. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z Iberville seemed determined to show the speciousness of the reasons, for he made a trip to the bay and brought back in 1691 two ships loaded with furs, much to the consolation of Frontenac. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z "The ignorant justice-loving man, enamoured of the right, is blinded by the speciousness of wrong." The Scientific Basis of National Progress Including that of Morality 2010-12-30T03:00:25.567Z He would not allow himself to disparage the problem before him by any speciousness of worldly convenience. Sinister Street, vol. 2 "I'll not be missed," he assured her with some conscious speciousness. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Yet there is an appearance of speciousness in the arguments, an adroit mixture of logic and rhetoric, of order and method, which is exceedingly seductive. A Short History of French Literature The idea was neither new nor just; but its speciousness will probably continue to commend it to many enthusiastic minds, whensoever and in whatsoever shape it is revived. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" The speciousness of B.'s reasoning is a great deal more likely to lead saints into bondage, than what he has said of sister Stowe. A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 The system of the theorist, disencumbered from all regard to the real nature of things, easily assumed an air of speciousness. A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations This is also requisite, because, from their speciousness, they are likely to mislead such as take what they read for granted. Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Will not your unwonted lenity, your present preposterous supineness, make the detestable rumour wear a look of the utmost speciousness, nay, of irrefragable truth? The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Sir Adrian halted a pace, a little moved by the speciousness of the pleading. The Light of Scarthey This appeal, from its very speciousness, and the skill with which it was pressed, had its effect in many cases. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Hence we see that the very essence of a fallacy is its speciousness. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The act of Parliament which restored to England specie payments was met with exactly the same argument, exactly the same controversy, exactly the same speciousness as meet you in this country. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Oh, you old sun, listen to the speciousness of it all! Captivity In the last case the identity of the suffix “stone,” and the resemblance of the ideas of “joy” and of “vitality,” lend some air of speciousness to a fundamental error. In the Wrong Paradise The former by far, Socrates," he replied; "for the latter occurred to me without demonstration, through a certain probability and speciousness whence most men derive their opinions. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates We may very properly say that a fallacy is more or less specious, but we can not properly say that a fallacy is specious, since without speciousness we can have no fallacies. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. It certainly will not be blinded by his speciousness and aid him in his subtle monarchism. The Conqueror Prof. D. It has just the speciousness that runs away with young people. More Bywords The ever genuine Constance felt a mortifying speciousness in her words and so piled them on. Kincaid's Battery There is some speciousness in my Genoese friend's argument. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 That judgment on which he had relied for so many years seemed recently, like a false companion unmasked, to have disclosed unexpected depths of hypocrisy and speciousness where all had seemed solidity. The Woodlanders It is not likely that so illustrious a house, however they may have previously condescended to the speciousness of your qualities, would persist in their design in the face of so cogent objections. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian In proportion to the speciousness of his qualities was he to be dreaded. Jane Talbot The pretext of desiring to inquire more fully into Paul's opinions derived speciousness from his ambiguous declaration, which had set the Council by the ears and had stopped his examination. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Of the variety and speciousness of the arguments used, you cannot have any correct idea. Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published It is written in a tone of assumed friendly remonstrance, and lays out with speciousness the apparent grounds for calling trust in Jehovah absurdity. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah He was doubtless an original thinker and a most brilliant and artistic writer; and by so much did he confuse people, even by the speciousness of his logic. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam I perceive the speciousness of those fallacies by which they are deluded. Jane Talbot It is necessary for me to take politics upon an unlimited scale, and to suppose that a statesman has no character to preserve but that of speciousness and plausibility. Four Early Pamphlets They were statutes which could not be overswept by any glittering speciousness, or set aside by fine spun theories as to what might or might not be a more desirable order of affairs. The Law of the Land There was a speciousness about Larkin's manner of alluding to the subject, that carried people away with him; particularly as what he said favoured their inclination to keep a tight hold on their purse-strings. Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them |
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